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Galilean transformation from velocity composition?

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Start date Jul 6, 2010
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jason12345

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Jul 6, 2010

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Hi.

Is there a quick way of deriving the Galilean transformations from the Galilean composition formula for velocities?

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starthaus

Jul 6, 2010

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jason12345 said:

Hi.

Is there a quick way of deriving the Galilean transformations from the Galilean composition formula for velocities?

Cheers.

You mean, the other way around?

haushofer

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Jul 8, 2010

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I have to think about this, but if you want to know more about this maybe Levy-Leblond's analysis of the Galilei group helps :)

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